On a day when there's nary a ray of sunshine available to lift your spirits, this will definitely do. Lisa Jackson without her entourage of 24/7 Secret Service agents brings forth happy thoughts like the last photographs of Mussolini's mistress Clara Pettachi hanging upside down alongside the late fascist dictator with her skirt graciously bound up by a chivalrous partisan so it wouldn't hang pendant to gravity depriving her of her modesty by exposing her Mussolini entertainment center.
Ms Jackson's face in the picture looks familiar, although it shouldn't. Probably because we saw plenty of faces like that accompanied by bodies that were profoundly ample demonstrations of the plentiful calories available in a diet whose staples are composed of rice, beans, and plantains, while Christmas shopping during the previous weeks.
She's all smiles because she won't have to personally evict those Virginia Homeowners whose house her department wants to bulldoze under for the purpose of planting grass on their former locations to control rainwater pollution. The Founders wisely gave us the Second Amendment for the purposes of seeking necessary redress of our grievances when Government became too relentlessly encroaching on our rights and liberties and too all encompassing in its tyrannical intent.

She's taking a cue from Hillary. Just as Hillary does not want to testify about Benghazi while being an actively serving Secretary of State, Lisa is skipping out before the full story comes out on her use of secret email accounts to avoid oversight.

The former 17-year South Shore Democratic congressman had told associates that he tried protecting his wife during negotiations leading up to the plea agreement, but they wouldnt let him, the source said. Jacksons wife, former Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th), is also under investigation. Federal agents from Washington, D.C., visited Chicago as recently as last week interviewing witnesses about the former congressman, a source with direct knowledge of the effort told the Chicago Sun-Times. Theyre still investigating. Theyre questioning people to corroborate, Jacksons statements to federal authorities, said the source. The feds were questioning witnesses about activity in Jacksons congressional campaign fund including for transactions specifically in 2009, 2010 and 2011, the source said.

Earlier this week, the Sun-Times reported that Sandi Jackson is now the target of a separate investigation by federal officials. Two sources with knowledge of that probe say that authorities believe the former 7th Ward alderman had direct knowledge of alleged misuse of campaign money. Jesse Jackson Jr. has allegedly misspent a large amount of campaign funds, including buying a $40,000 Rolex watch. Earlier this week, Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed quoted a source saying significant jail time is now definitely a part of the deal the feds offered him.

But its hard to estimate the extent of the punishment Jesse Jackson Jr. faces without yet knowing the amount of campaign funds he allegedly misspent, defense lawyers and experts in campaign-finance law said Friday. The amount involved will be the biggest factor in his penalty, mitigated by his health condition and by his resignation from Congress, said Kenneth Gross, a former associate general counsel for the Federal Election Commission who is now in private practice in Washington. When he resigned from Congress in November, Jackson cited his battle with a bi-polar disorder and depression and acknowledged the federal investigation.

Heather Winslow, a former federal defender who works as a private defense attorney here, said Jackson is benefitting from working out a plea deal behind closed doors before being charged formally, in open court. If the allegations against him were public, she said, then there might be more public pressure on prosecutors to not show leniency with the former congressman. Still, she predicted he would eventually spend somewhere in the realm of 30-40 months behind bars. Its likely that the U.S. attorneys office and Jacksons lawyers have engaged in charge bargaining, said Jeffrey Steinback, a defense lawyer who specializes negotiating plea deals in federal criminal cases. Theres probably an agreement thats structured so he admits to a count whose maximum sentence is far lower than the other counts he otherwise could have been convicted of, Steinback said.

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